Grail Atlas — Acceptable Use Policy

DRAFT:this policy is in working-draft form pending review by qualified counsel. The content is the Grail Atlas team's best-effort framework; treat it as informational until the watermark is removed.

DRAFT — NOT LEGAL ADVICE. A working draft to scaffold Grail Atlas's governance. Review with counsel before launch.

Last updated: 2026-05-19 (draft)

This policy governs contributions and conduct on Grail Atlas. It supplements the Terms of Service. Breaking it can cost reputation, suspend contribution rights, or close an account.

1. Contribute in good faith

• Contribute signals, reports, and reviews that are **accurate to the best of

your knowledge** and based on genuine experience or cited evidence.

• Disclose conflicts of interest. If you are a dealer, brand representative,

or otherwise have a financial interest, say so on your profile and on relevant contributions.

• Cite sources where you can. OSINT-derived claims should link to the public

source.

2. Do not manipulate

• No vote manipulation, brigading, or coordinated inauthentic activity.
• No operating multiple accounts to inflate reputation, votes, or a watch's

ratings (no "Sybil" behavior).

• No paying for, or accepting payment for, votes, signals, or favorable ratings.

3. Do not harm others

• No false or defamatory statements about sellers, dealers, or other users.

Report concerns as factual observations — never as accusations of fraud.

• No harassment, threats, hate speech, or sharing of others' private information.
• No impersonation.

4. Respect the platform and the law

• No scraping, crawling, or bulk-extracting Grail Atlas's content or data, and no

circumventing rate limits or technical controls.

• No uploading malware, no probing security, no disrupting the Service.
• No posting content that infringes intellectual property or violates the law.
• No counterfeit-trafficking facilitation. Counterfeit-detection knowledge on

the site is reputation-gated for a reason; do not redistribute it to aid counterfeiters.

5. Reporting & enforcement

• Anyone can flag a listing, signal, or piece of data that appears wrong, stale,

unsafe, or in breach of this policy.

• Intellectual-property complaints follow the notice-and-takedown process; our

designated DMCA agent (Brett Morrison, registered with the US Copyright Office, registration DMCA-1073296) is reachable at dmca@grailatlas.com.

• Enforcement is graduated: a correction or warning, reputation reduction,

loss of contribution privileges, and — for serious or repeat breaches — account suspension. We aim to give notice and a chance to respond, except where immediate action is needed for safety or legal reasons.

5a. Notice-and-action mechanism (DSA Article 16)

We provide a structured channel for users — including non-account-holders — to notify us of content they consider illegal under EU or member-state law. The mechanism follows DSA Art. 16 and is open to good-faith reports.

What a valid notice should include

• A precise URL or identifier of the content concerned.
• A clear explanation of why the notifier considers the content illegal,

including the legal basis (a law cited, or harm described).

• The notifier's name and contact details — unless the notice concerns

intimate imagery, child sexual abuse material, or terrorism content, in which case anonymous notices are accepted.

• A statement of good faith — that the information is accurate to the

notifier's knowledge.

Where to submit

[notices@grailatlas.com]. Subject line: DSA Art. 16 notice — <ref>.

What we do with it

1. Acknowledge within 48 hours.
2. Triage internally: a moderator assesses the content against this

AUP, applicable law, and the cited legal basis. The decision record lives in the moderation log.

1. Decision within 7 days for routine cases, longer if the case is

complex or requires external counsel input. The decision is one of: - Remove the content - Restrict access (geo-block, de-rank, suppress from feeds) - Label the content with context - Reject the notice — content stays as-is

1. Statement of reasons is provided to BOTH the notifier and the

user whose content is affected (DSA Art. 17). The statement includes the legal basis, the action taken, and the redress paths below.

1. Counter-notice — the affected user can challenge the decision via

[counter-notice@grailatlas.com] within 30 days. A second reviewer (different from the original moderator) decides. Reinstatement is automatic on a successful counter-notice unless court order says otherwise.

Bad-faith reports

Notices that are clearly abusive, repetitive, or made in bad faith (competitor harassment, automated submissions, frivolous defamation claims) are dismissed. Persistent bad-faith reporters lose access to the notice channel; their reports can still be made via the regulator path.

Out-of-court dispute settlement

Per DSA Art. 21, any affected party may pursue out-of-court settlement through a certified body in their member state. We will engage with such proceedings in good faith.

6. Contact

[trust@grailatlas.com]